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Larissa Mark, the Trumbull High School senior who led efforts to successfully reinstate the school's Thespian Society production of the musical "Rent" via a wide-spread social media and grass roots community campaign, will be honored by the Dramatists Guild of America on Feb. 28 at the Lambs Club in New York. The Dramatists Legal Defense Fund will present the first DLDF Defender Award in support of free expression in the dramatic arts to Mark at the high-profile event. Playwrights Christopher Durang, John Guare, Mike Lew and Arthur Kopit, lyricist Amanda Green, composer Trey Anastasio and actors Lisa Kron and Viola Davis will also be honored in a number of...

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Larissa Mark, the Trumbull High School senior who led efforts to successfully reinstate the school's Thespian Society production of the musical "Rent" via a wide-spread social media and grass roots community campaign, will be honored by...

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The civil rights drama "Selma" won top honors at the NAACP Image Awards in a ceremony that took sharp notice of snubs of African-American artists and their work by the Oscars. "This is more than a movie," Oprah Winfrey, who was a...

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